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Vagrant in Iceland.
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English European Turtle Dove
Scientific (Streptopelia turtur)
Order COLUMBIFORMES
Family (Latin) Columbidae
Family (English) Pigeons, Doves
Other name(s)
Breeding Regions PAL
Breeding Range Subregions w, c
Nonbreeding Range Subregions AF
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Armenia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahrain,Belarus,Belgium,Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Cameroon,Cape Verde,Chad,China,Comoros,Congo,Croatia,Cyprus, Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark,Djibouti,Egypt,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,Finland,France, Gabon,Gambia,Georgia,Germany,Ghana,Gibraltar,Greece,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Hungary, Iran,Iraq,Ireland,Israel,Ivory Coast,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan, Latvia,Lebanon,Liberia,Libya,Liechtenstein,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Macedonia,Maldives,Mali, Malta,Mauritania,Moldova,Monaco,Mongolia,Montenegro,Morocco,Namibia,Netherlands,Niger, Nigeria,Norway,Oman,Palestine,Poland,Portugal,Qatar,Romania,Russia,San Marino, Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Sierra Leone,Slovakia,Slovenia,Somalia,South Sudan,Spain,Sudan, Sweden,Switzerland,Syria,Tajikistan,Togo,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Uganda,Ukraine, United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom,Uzbekistan,Western Sahara,Yemen,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
turtur Europe, Madeira and Canary Is. to w Siberia
arenicola nw Africa to Iran and w China
hoggara Air Massif and Hoggar Mts. (s Sahara)
rufescens Egypt and n Sudan
IUCN Status Code VU (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1758)
German Turteltaube
French Tourterelle des bois
Chinese 欧斑鸠
Japanese コキジバト
Russian Горлица
Spanish Tórtola europea
Portuguese rola-brava
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Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
EU Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)